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Head of the National Investment Council Boris Lozhkin believes Ukraine can attract up to $3-5 billion in investment in 2017 should it demonstrate a progress in implementing the reforms. ”I hope that next year the National Investment Council will be able to implement a number of serious institutional initiatives, as well as to attract $3-5...

Not only Germany`s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault are planning to visit Kyiv this week, Ukraine`s FM Pavlo Klimkin said speaking on Inter TV channel, Ukraine Today reports. They will be joined by their British and Danish counterparts – Boris Johnson and Kristian Jensen, Klimkin...

Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin expects that the European Parliament will decide on a visa-free regime with Ukraine in the near future, DW reports with reference to Die Welt. ”I expect that later this month or in October, the European Parliament will vote in favor of a visa-free regime, and we will get a positive decision of the EU until...

The number of people registered as unemployed with the State Employment Service has decreased by 10% as compared to the previous year, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Rozenko told Ukrainian 112 Channel. ”The situation we have now is stable. The number of people registered as unemployed with the State Employment Service is about 10% lower as...

The representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) will not mention annexed Crimea in the report on the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the representative of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Jan Petersen said in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia. Since the OSCE...

Ukrainian athletes won six gold medals on the fourth day of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and continue to rank third in the medal standings. On September 11, the Ukrainians also won three silver and bronze medals. A rower Roman Polianskyi, a sprinter Leilia Adzhametova, a tennis player Natalia Kosmina, and swimmers Yelyzaveta Mereshko,...

Stocks of natural gas in Ukraine`s underground storage facilities grew by 3.4%, or 425 million cubic meters (mcm), from 12.687 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas on September 3 to 13.112 bcm of gas on September 10, according to Ukrtransgaz, operator of Ukraine`s gas transport system. The amount of gas pumped daily into the underground storage...

The electoral process in Russia-annexed Crimea could lead to a new wave of repression in case Crimeans publicly refuse to vote, Chairman of the Crimean Human Rights Group Olga Skrypnyk has told Hromadske.tv. ”The so-called electoral process in Crimea could trigger a new wave of repression if people publicly refuse or write that they disagree with...

Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has announced the meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. President Barack Obama is to be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting, Europeiska Pravda reported referring to Klimkin`s interview with Inter TV channel. ”I believe, a brief meeting will certainly take...

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine plans to submit the draft state budget for 2017 to the Verkhovna Rada this week, as required by the Constitution and the Budget Code, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said in his video address to the nation on Facebook. ”This week, the government will submit the budget for 2017 to the Parliament....